Keynote: IDEAlliance

Conference organizers GCA have formed a new organization called IDEAlliance, which stands for International Digital Enterprise Alliance, a non-profit group interested in promoting user driven interoperability standards development. Paul Conn described several efforts:

• PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) - XML metadata vocabulary for publishers by mid 2000. Linda Burman is a focal point.
• ICE (Information and Content Exchange) - controlled exchange of e-assets between networked partner. Sun, Adobe, Microsoft, CNET, Vignette, and others are key players. ICE 1.1 was just released with a beta implementation expected 1Q2000.
• CPEX (Customer Profile Exchange) network - privacy enabled (customer specifies degree of privacy). Version 1.0 is expected mid 2000.
• ICC - (Independent Consultants Cooperative) - "an organization of independent XML/SGML consultants who work with the IDEAlliance to provide services for members and to support user-driven standards activities".

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